# Yuan is first woman to break 10s for flying 200

*By Simon | March 15, 2025*

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15 March 2025

[Yuan Liying](https://globalkeirin.com/rider/yuan-liying/) of China set an
unexpected world record on the second day of competition at the UCI Track
Nations Cup in Konya, Turkey.

The 19 year old’s time of 9.976 in qualifying for the women’s sprint event was
the first time in history that a woman has gone under 10 seconds for the flying
200 metres.

She takes the world record from
[Lea Sophie Friedrich](https://globalkeirin.com/rider/lea-sophie-friedrich/),
who recorded 10.029 at the Paris Olympics last summer.

Yuan’s previous best results have come in team sprint, with silver and bronze
from the world championships in 2023 and 2024. She participated in the keirin in
Paris 2024, but exited at the quarter final stage. She was involved in a crash
just after the finish line, coming into contact with
[Steffie van der Peet](https://globalkeirin.com/rider/steffie-van-der-peet/),
and taking out
[Nicky Degrendele](https://globalkeirin.com/rider/nicky-degrendele/); and DNS’ed
in the Olympic sprint competition a couple of days later.

The session also saw national records – _as far as we can tell_ – for
[Mina Sato](https://globalkeirin.com/rider/mina-sato/) (10.170),
[Hetty van de Wouw](https://globalkeirin.com/rider/hetty-van-de-wouw/) (10.191),
[Veronika Jaborníková](https://globalkeirin.com/rider/veronika-jabornikova/)
(10.508),
[Nurul Izzah Izzati Mohd Asri](https://globalkeirin.com/rider/nurul-izzah-izzati-mohd-asri/)
(10.578) and [Makaira Wallace](https://globalkeirin.com/rider/makaira-wallace/)
(10.784).

Konya is situated at just over 1000 metres altitude: enough to make a
difference, but not on par with noted high-altitude tracks like Mexico’s
Aguascalientes (1887m), used by
[Jeffrey Hoogland](https://globalkeirin.com/rider/jeffrey-hoogland/) to set his
kilo record last October.

Yuan went on to win the overall, beating
[Alina Lysenko](https://globalkeirin.com/rider/alina-lysenko/) in two in the
final. She will also contest the keirin tomorrow.

The first man to go under 10 seconds was Canada’s **Curt Harnett**, competing
outdoors at Bogota, Colombia in September 1995: that record stood for a
remarkable 11 years.

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